Elizabete Lukšo-Ražinska (born 1990) is a Latvian writer and screenwriter. She received her education — three degrees in total — at the Latvian Academy of Culture.
From 2014 to 2019, she worked as an editor at the online cultural magazine Satori, and took part in its annual creative writing masterclasses. Her short stories and essays have been appearing in Latvian cultural media since 2014. Together with writer Ieva Melgalve she has published two detective books for children in the Emī and Rū series, both nominated for the Latvian Literature Award. In 2024 her first short-story collection for adults, A Dirty Hair Day, was released.
Since 2020 Elizabete has focused on screenwriting. In 2024 she completed a master’s programme in Audiovisual and Performing Arts. She has written scripts for children’s television series, and is one of the writers behind the feature film Postcard from Rome, which won the National Film Award Lielais Kristaps in 2024 for Best Feature Film.
She currently teaches creative writing to children and young people, and is working on a new feature-film script.
Netīro matu diena [Dirty Hair Day]. Rīga: Ascendum, 2025.
Emī un Rū. Draudzības kods. [Emmy and Roo: The Code of Friendship] (with Ieva Melgalve). Rīga: Ausma Media, 2022.
Emī un Rū. Robota sirds. [Emmy and Roo: The Robot’s Heart] (with Ieva Melgalve]. Rīga: Tuta Media, 2020.
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